bug#8660: 23.2; info-look.el makefile-mode derivatives

[Kevin Ryde]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> inferior-octave-mode uses it.

I saw that, in `octave-help', but presumed it was to make that command
independent of the major mode, ie. since the command is "octave-help" it
should always consult the octave docs.

> Oh, yes, that would be a better change.  Patch welcome.

Would you like to take the automakery bit first and I'll see what I can
get to for the derived,

2011-05-15  Kevin Ryde  <user42@zip.com.au>

        * info-look.el (makefile-automake-mode): New setups, looking in
        automake manual, then makefile-mode.
        (makefile-mode): Remove automake manual, have it just in
        makefile-automake-mode since there's various things different or
        not relevant to plain make.
        (makefile-mode): Remove "other-modes" non-existent automake-mode,
        believe a hypothetical automake-mode would go to makefile-mode,
        not the other way around.

--- info-look.el.orig   2011-05-12 08:36:49.000000000 +1000
+++ info-look.el        2011-05-16 09:53:41.000000000 +1000
@@ -720,11 +720,31 @@
  :mode 'makefile-mode
  :regexp "\\$[^({]\\|\\.[_A-Z]*\\|[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9-]*"
  :doc-spec '(("(make)Name Index" nil
-             "^[ \t]*`" "'")
-            ("(automake)Macro and Variable Index" nil
              "^[ \t]*`" "'"))
- :parse-rule "\\$[^({]\\|\\.[_A-Z]*\\|[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+"
- :other-modes '(automake-mode))
+ :parse-rule "\\$[^({]\\|\\.[_A-Z]*\\|[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+")
+
+(info-lookup-maybe-add-help
+ :topic      'symbol
+ :mode       'makefile-automake-mode
+ ;; similar regexp/parse-rule as makefile-mode, but also the following
+ ;; (which have index entries),
+ ;;   "##" special automake comment
+ ;;   "+=" append operator, separate from the GNU make one
+ :regexp     "\\$[^({]\\|\\.[_A-Z]*\\|[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9-]*\\|##\\|\\+="
+ :parse-rule "\\$[^({]\\|\\.[_A-Z]*\\|[_a-zA-Z0-9-]+\\|##\\|\\+="
+ :doc-spec   '(
+               ;; "(automake)Macro Index" is autoconf macros used in
+               ;; configure.in, not Makefile.am, so don't have that here.
+               ("(automake)Variable Index" nil "^[ \t]*`" "'")
+               ;; In automake 1.4 macros and variables were a combined node.
+               ("(automake)Macro and Variable Index" nil "^[ \t]*`" "'")
+               ;; Directives like "if" are in the "General Index".
+               ;; Prefix "`" since the text for say `+=' isn't always an
+               ;; @item etc and so not always at the start of a line.
+               ("(automake)General Index" nil "`" "'")
+               ;; In automake 1.3 there was just a single "Index" node.
+               ("(automake)Index" nil "`" "'"))
+ :other-modes '(makefile-mode))
 
 (info-lookup-maybe-add-help
  :mode 'texinfo-mode




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